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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1822: Performed by the [[Garrison Players]] on 14 September 1822 in the [[African Theatre]], with ''[[Amoroso, King of Little Britain]]'' (Kemble)  and ''[[The Irishman in London]]'' (Wm Macready)
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1822: Performed by the [[Garrison Players]] on 14 September 1822 in the [[African Theatre]], with the burlesque ''[[Amoroso, King of Little Britain]]'' (Planché))  and ''[[The Irishman in London]]'' (Wm Macready)
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:28, 15 July 2014

A prose play in three acts by Charles Kemble (1775–1854), taken from the French play Le Deserteur by Louis Sébastien Mercier.

First performed in English at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1808.

Published by Longman et al, London in 1808.


Performance history in South Africa

1822: Performed by the Garrison Players on 14 September 1822 in the African Theatre, with the burlesque Amoroso, King of Little Britain (Planché)) and The Irishman in London (Wm Macready)

Sources

Digital facsimile version of 1808 text (A Google E-Book)[1]

Kemble, Charles (DNB00) in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 [2]


Bosman, 1928: pp.182, 191

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